The Jean Baudrillard Reader

by Steve Redhead

Book Overview

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a controversial social and cultural theorist known for his trenchant analyses of media and technological communication. Belonging to the generation of French thinkers that included Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, Baudrillard has at times been vilified by his detractors, but the influence of his work on critical thought and pop culture is impossible to deny (many might recognize...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231146124
• ISBN13: 9780231146128
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher